I'll put it on my blog here only after 4 weeks. In school I was a back bencher myself. So I first need to make sense to myself. Exercising and playing in hot and humid conditions, for as little as 30 minutes, can quickly take a turn for the worse.
It makes the situation worse. A decade ago, on a hot summer Sunday on my long slow run, I started to sweat from the first kilometre and my t-shirt and shorts were soaking wet by the second. Nothing extraordinary here, as most of you will probably relate to this in current weather conditions.
After about three hours, I hit Rajpath the road between Rashtrapati Bhavan and India Gate and the sun was shining in all its glory, as if there was no tomorrow.
Suddenly, out of the blue, I had the urge to sleep. It baffled me. Rather than continue running, I headed towards one of the trees lined up the lawns on both sides of Rajpath. I lay down on a bench under the tree. Now, this could have easily been disastrous, had I not stopped. More so for those who are not accustomed to exerting themselves by playing sports or exercising in these conditions.
And if your fitness levels aren't good, these are just the wrong weather conditions to have an epiphany to discover your fitter self. As soon as we start exercising or playing sport, our contracting muscles waste a lot of energy by producing large amounts of heat. We release that heat through sweat. When the ambient air temperature is lower than the body, the sweat evaporates and cools the body down. And it's all good. Sweating effectively fails to keep us cool, and as a result, it heats us up further.
